Hi everyone
I live in Dulwich Hill along the light rail / Greenway corridor. There are
a resident pair of White-browed scrubwren living in the adjacent bushcare
site and nearby weedy thickets. The pair frequently visit my small garden
to use the birdbath and to feed amongst my thick plantings. I know there
are probably scrubwrens surviving on a section of the Greenway in
Leichhardt but I wondered if anyone knows of others in the inner west?(ie
not Wolli Creek). We also have resident Superb fairywrens and Spotted
pardalotes.
Thanks,
Chris
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The scrubwrens I see, or used to see, in Docklands in Melbourne seemed to be all living in one small bush. They used a small nearby reed bed too, but seemed based in that bush. The bush died, now they’re gone.
Peter Shute
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On 7 Sep 2017, at 8:55 am, Martin Butterfield <martinflab@gmail.com<mailto:martinflab@gmail.com>> wrote:
At our place (rural residential, near to Canberra) the birds are regularly seen in our garden. They seem quite happy flying 4-5m between shrubs and under our deck. The loss of a lot of shrubs in a bush fire doesn’t seem to have affected them much.
Martin Butterfield
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On 6 September 2017 at 19:33, Chris King <chrisk58@gmail.com<mailto:chrisk58@gmail.com>> wrote:
That’s very interesting, that they successfully ran the gauntlet of bully
birds like noisy miners in between.
I have noticed that the scrubwrens dont seem to venture out of their scrub
much. We do a monthly bird survey in the streets near me and we never pick
them up, unlike fairywrens and pardalotes. We see them in another garden
across the Greenway / rail corridor to me, and adjacent to a scrubby
section, so they probably fly across the rail line – about 8-10 metres.
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 4:56 AM, Peter Shute <pshute@nuw.org.au<mailto:pshute@nuw.org.au>> wrote:
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Scrubwrens seem to be capable of recolonising. I’ve seen them in a small park in Docklands in Melbourne, which would previously have been unsuitable, and at least a couple of kilometres from suitable habitat.
Peter Shute
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